Cost-effective and environmentally friendly, phytoremediation uses the natural abilities of plants to clean up or contain toxic chemicals and pollutants. Literally meaning a plant remedy, phytoremediation can provide the answer to heavy metals, pesticides, oil, and contaminants in the soil. Investigate what is necessary for phytoremediation to work and analyze the danger if animals feed on the plants that have cleaned up the poisons. Examine the difference between phytoextraction, rhizofiltration, phytostabilization, phytotransformation, and rhizosphere bioremediation.
Caribbean monk seals are extinct while Mediterranean and Hawaiian monk seals are critically endangered species. Considered a living fossil, Hawaiian monk seals have a long evolutionary heritage and developed in isolation. Females are bigger than males and the animals may get darker in color as they age. Newborns are black before they molt. Their mothers fast while caring for them for up to six weeks before leaving them on their own to survive. Monk seals forage nocturnally for fish and crustaceans. Learn about other prey and predators as well as their habitat and distribution.
Many seals like cold climates but the Hawaiian monk seal prefers tropical beaches. This endangered species lives on the remote atolls of northwestern Hawaii. Surrounded by coral reefs, they forage for lobster and octopus as well as fish and eels. When a storm comes, they will take shelter on land. The Hawaiian name for this animal means "dog that runs in rough water." It is called a monk seal for its solitary nature and cowl-like skin folds. Mother seals never leave their pups and go five or six weeks without eating.
Wisconsin Fast Plants were developed with NSF funding at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The short life cycle, compact size, and minimal light and watering requirements of these plants make them easy to grow and care for in a classroom setting.
Many exciting hands-on experiments have been developed for students at all grade levels to conduct. Bottle Biology utilizes low-cost materials (such as 2-liter soda bottles) for students to explore environmental connections between plants, animals, water, and human impact, to name a few.
A terrarium is an example of a mini-ecosystem that is fairly simple to construct using easily obtained materials. A terrarium can be used as an educational tool to explain what materials are required to make a self-sustaining mini-ecosystem. In addition, depending on the materials you use, a terrarium can easily double as attractive home decor.
Bottle Biology Added by: Bianca Han 9/28/11 Period 4
Creating an ecosystem can be as simple as setting up a container or as complex as creating an ecosystem on a planet like Mars. The Earth's ecosystem consists of billions of species interacting in ways we don't always understand. If one species is eliminated a new species will take its place and the ecosystem survives. To colonize a planet we would want to make it self-sufficient and in order to do this we would have to set up an ecosystem. A very complex task. We can make a mini-ecosystem simply by using an aquarium or water bottle
Water, as it cycles between land, ocean and atmosphere, forms the major link between the terrestrial world (involving anything living on the earth) and the aquatic world (involving anything living on or in the water).
This website explains a bottle ecosystem: http://www.bottlebiology.org/investigations/terraqua_main.html
Magazine Article on Endangered Species
Added by: Chester Lee, 2011-09-28, Period 4
To create a magazine article on endangered species, I will do research on that species, and make a magazine article-looking page on Microsoft Publisher.
To research the species, I will look on: http://www.wikipedia.org
and http://www.google.com
Michael Sakai Pd. 4
Some suggestions
http://www.learner.org/courses/essential/life/bottlebio//terraqua/pdf/animals_plants.pdf
How to grow kalanchoe
http://houseplants.about.com/od/succulentsandcacti/p/Kalanchoe.htm
About fast plants
http://www.fastplants.org/#menu
Bioremediation
added by A. Torige, 9/28/11
Aquaponics
http://www.growingpower.org/aquaponics.htm
Nami Obara, 9/28/2011, pd.2
Air Purification
ELT Easy Green
added by Elisa Fernandes-McDade Pr. 2
An introduction to green walls and the benefits of having them in your home.
http://www.eltlivingwalls.com/living-walls/
http://www.downtown2015.com/urban-green-wall.htm
Living wall~
Evie Chong Period 2 9/28/11
Hawaiian Endangered Species
added by A Torige 9/28/11
Bottle Biology KEVIN CHEN PERIOD:2 9/28/11
URL:
http://www.classbrain.com/artteensb/publish/bottle_biology_science_project.shtml
This URL link shows you how to make your very own bottle biology!
Daichi Takeoka
Period 2
Cutting Bottles
This site is about how to cut bottles in bottle biology.
http://www.learner.org/courses/essential/life/bottlebio/cutting.html
added by H.yonghui 9/28/11 pg2
this site show what is bottle biology
http://www.scifun.org/SciSat/BottleBiology/BottleBiology_Sp04.htm
kade yamada pr2
this website shows how to create bottle biology and how to maintain its life.
http://umassk12.net/~plants/
added by Lawrence Medeiros pd. 2 9-28-11
Wisconsin Fast Plants were developed with NSF funding at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The short life cycle, compact size, and minimal light and watering requirements of these plants make them easy to grow and care for in a classroom setting.
Many exciting hands-on experiments have been developed for students at all grade levels to conduct. Bottle Biology utilizes low-cost materials (such as 2-liter soda bottles) for students to explore environmental connections between plants, animals, water, and human impact, to name a few.
added by Travis Shimozono pd. 2 9/28/11
URL:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5552274_create-mini-ecosystem.html
A terrarium is an example of a mini-ecosystem that is fairly simple to construct using easily obtained materials. A terrarium can be used as an educational tool to explain what materials are required to make a self-sustaining mini-ecosystem. In addition, depending on the materials you use, a terrarium can easily double as attractive
home decor.
Bottle Biology
Added by: Bianca Han 9/28/11 Period 4
Creating an ecosystem can be as simple as setting up a container or as complex as creating an ecosystem on a planet like Mars. The Earth's ecosystem consists of billions of species interacting in ways we don't always understand. If one species is eliminated a new species will take its place and the ecosystem survives. To colonize a planet we would want to make it self-sufficient and in order to do this we would have to set up an ecosystem. A very complex task. We can make a mini-ecosystem simply by using an aquarium or water bottle
This website explains step by step how to build your won mini ecosystem.
http://dragonflyfla.hubpages.com/hub/Ecosystem-in-a-Jar
Added by: Korey Ogomori 9/28/11 Period 4
Water, as it cycles between land, ocean and atmosphere, forms the major link between the terrestrial world (involving anything living on the earth) and the aquatic world (involving anything living on or in the water).
This website explains a bottle ecosystem:
http://www.bottlebiology.org/investigations/terraqua_main.html
Magazine Article on Endangered Species
Added by: Chester Lee, 2011-09-28, Period 4
To create a magazine article on endangered species, I will do research on that species, and make a magazine article-looking page on Microsoft Publisher.
To research the species, I will look on:
http://www.wikipedia.org
and
http://www.google.com